Posts Tagged ‘inauguration’

We have a new President!

And from the White House blog, President Obama’s first official act in office:

NATIONAL DAY OF RENEWAL AND RECONCILIATION, 2009
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
As I take the sacred oath of the highest office in the land, I am humbled by the responsibility placed upon [...]

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Inauguration by the numbers

Numbers and info from Time Magazine:

3 million people expected to attend
5,000 portable toilets on the Mall and parade route
800 lbs. of bison and 1,500 cases of beer at one hotel alone
2 million Metro maps distributed
10 video walls on the Mall for ceremony watching
5,625 security cameras in D.C.

The Washington Area Bicyclist Association will lock up your [...]

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